Sunflower Restaurant
A wholly vegetarian restaurant is quite the exotic experience for me. I’m left at a loss of expectations before I even enter the front door. Do I need to bring my passport? Are they going to give me one of those uber-intrusive body scans, and check me for contraband weapons or meats? Do they speak [...]
Sea Pearl Restaurant
I’ve passed by Sea Pearl numerous times on the road, as well as having passed up numerous opportunities to eat there after a quick glance at the menu. Most restaurants in Vienna don’t really capture my attention, and the offerings on the menu look like you standard fare of bistro type establishments. The restaurant is [...]
Blue Moon Diner
Blue Moon Diner is much like one of the first girls you kissed in high school – unpretentious, fun, and filled with all sorts of liquor. By day, it serves as a local trough for the masses, with the four hallmarks of any good diner worth its salt : a kitchen half obscured by two [...]
The Original Pancake House
The Original Pancake House is a chain of diners with locations all over the country. These diners are in the same vein as IHOP, but the primary focus at TOPH is without a doubt, pancakes, and lots of them. The variety extends not only to unique creations such as the Bacon Pancakes or Georgia Pecan [...]
Rose Restaurant
Rose Restaurant isn’t one of those places you pass by and keep an entry on that mental list of restaurants to try out, next to that mental list of birthdates, the mental list of anniversaries, and mental list of things to things of substances to cover yourself in and run naked through the street so [...]
Guajillo Grill
Guajillo Grill, more commonly referred to as just Guajillo, is a little neighborhood Mexican restaurant tucked away in the same strip mall as the now infamous Ray’s Hell Burger on Wilson Boulevard. Well, famous if you live in the DC Metro area, anyways. In fact, Guajillo is right next door, and if you can resist [...]
Metro 29 Diner
Metro 29 Diner is a free standing diner on route 29 in Arlington, and has the great distinction of not only being one of the best diners in the area, but also a locally owned one as well. It’s hard to miss this place as it maintains the traditional diner exterior, with just barely [...]
China Garden
China Garden is just one of the few places in the DC metro area that serves an authentic dim sum (or yum cha) brunch on the weekends. Let’s back up a second here and get you acquainted a bit with the terms. Dim Sum, literally translated as “Touch the Heart”, refers to a Canton style [...]
Kora Restaurant
Kora is one of the latest in a deluge of new Italian restaurants in the DC area, and the second restaurant by Chef Morou and his wife, Heather. The couple’s first restaurant, Farrah Olivia, has been closed since April, which has given Morou the time to properly focus his attention on Kora. The new [...]
Minerva Indian Cuisine
One of the great things about living in the suburbs of the Washington DC area is the wide array of authentic ethnic dining from a dizzying array of choices. It almost seems absurd that having Indian cuisine for dinner would be one of the less exotic choices you could go with around here. Regardless, many [...]
